Month: October 2005
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Sargent in Venice (J.S.S. Virtual Gallery)
I recently returned from my first visit to Venice(!), dazzled and eager to revisit Sargent’s watercolors of that amazing city. I had the chance to see several of them at the Sargent show in D.C a few years ago, and I’ve admired them in books for years, but it’s different after having been there. This…
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Ryan Terry’s Ry-guy.com
I’m not a fan of most “clever” web site interfaces because they usually sacrifice any shred of usability on the altar of coolness. Ryan Terry’s Ry-guy.com is so clever, however, that it becomes an entertainment in itself. This is one of the most fun Flash interfaces I’ve ever seen on the web. The site is…
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Van Gogh’s Drawings
A few years ago I had the chance to see some of Van Gogh’s drawings at an exhibit in Philadelphia. I was stunned by how beautiful and how accomplished they were. Even though publishers tend to bypass his drawings in favor of the more popular paintings, I had seen some reproduced, but drawings suffer even…
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Bill Hall
Bill Hall is a Texas illustrator who specializes in sports illustration. He works digitally in Corel Painter, using blurred brushstrokes and anime-like motion lines to convey movement.
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Bruce Timm
Bruce Timm is an animator, character designer and comics artist, best known for his work on Batman Adventures and the other DC Comics animated TV series. In the course of developing those shows he helped define the standards for modern television adventure/super-hero cartoons. He has also done a cool series of comic books with Paul…
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A Painting a Day (Duane Keiser)
What a great idea this is and how I wish I had the time/discipline to emulate it! Duane Keiser is a Virginia artist. In addition to his regular work he has set himself the admirable goal of painting one small painting every day. Most of them are small oil sketches (he calls them “Postcard Paintings”).…